For 185 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 65% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Phil Hall's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 53
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 55 out of 185
  2. Negative: 51 out of 185
185 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 89
    • Phil Hall 100
    Quite simply, House of Flying Daggers is a film that sets several new standards for production and entertainment values. It is a wild riot of color, music, passion, action, mystery, pure old-fashioned thrills and even dancing.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Phil Hall 100
    This is an excellent movie -- by all means, flock to it!
    • Metascore: 66
    • Phil Hall 100
    A symphony of small gestures, throwaway glances, brief exchanges of unexpected observation and silences which actually say more than pages of dialogue.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Phil Hall 100
    Kung Fu Hustle is something you rarely encounter in theaters: a genuinely original comedy.
    • Metascore: 29
    • Phil Hall 100
    Provocative and poignant.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Phil Hall 100
    One could literally milk a thesaurus in trying to find the right words to lavish on Saraband: brilliant, towering, majestic, challenging, remarkable.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Phil Hall 100
    Paltrow gives the performance of the year, and perhaps of her career, in this extraordinary and powerful dissection of genius, jealousy, madness and serenity.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Phil Hall 100
    Whereas "Cuckoo’s Nest" is a brilliantly over-the-top accomplishment, The Passenger is more brilliant with the most effortless underplaying one can ever hope to witness on screen.
    • Metascore: 32
    • Phil Hall 100
    I would like to praise My Big Fat Independent Movie for achieving something that most independently-produced comedies fail to do: it creates laughs.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Phil Hall 100
    One of the greatest art documentaries ever made. Through an imaginative mixture of rare footage, audio recordings and contemporary interviews with the living legends of modern art, Rosen has created a cinematic portrait which is, in itself, a work of art.
    • Metascore: 51
    • Phil Hall 100
    Theaters showing Mad Cowgirl should install seatbelts, because audiences are in for the ultimate wild ride.
    • Metascore: 37
    • Phil Hall 100
    The idea of a gay version of "American Pie" might not seem too tasty, but Another Gay Movie offers a fabulous surprise in not only matching that rude boy classic's unapologetic rude humor but by establishing its own identity as a genuinely funny and often touching coming of age comedy.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Phil Hall 100
    Offers the Iraqis a rare chance to share their anger and their lives with the outside world. The resulting production is a raw and powerful film that demands to be seen.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Phil Hall 100
    One of the year's best films. An extraordinary work of intellectual maturity and emotional depth.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Phil Hall 100
    The result is a mature, graceful and extraordinary accomplishment.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Phil Hall 100
    One of the most towering and extraordinary films to grace the screen.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Phil Hall 100
    Truly magnificent.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Phil Hall 100
    Among the finest films made in the Middle East. This small, subtle gem offers a vivid portrait of life in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, presenting its message with an intelligence and vibrancy that celebrates the human spirit in an environment where humanity is routinely crushed and assaulted.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Phil Hall 100
    This amazing tour-de-force presents Huppert in a role, which is equal parts abrasive and vulnerable, exasperating and pathetic, monstrous and saintly.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Phil Hall 100
    One of the most effective, intelligent, mature and romantic love stories to come across the screen recently is, of all things, a documentary.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Phil Hall 100
    Offers a remarkable tribute to one of the few people who genuinely deserves to be known as a pioneer of filmmaking. In the genre of films about films, In the Mirror of Maya Deren is among the best.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Phil Hall 100
    An extraordinary achievement on all possible levels.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Phil Hall 100
    This extraordinary work of cinematic art is among the most sublime, compelling and beautifully crafted films to grace the big screen.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Phil Hall 100
    A powerful film worthy of a truly extraordinary American.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Phil Hall 100
    Rich with wonderful music and images.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Phil Hall 100
    It is a horrifying and devastating spectacle of life gone dreadfully out of control, yet it is also riveting and hypnotic in such a dramatic sensation that you are left breathless by the sequence of events which will haunt and torture for as long as your memory remains intact.
    • Metascore: 51
    • Phil Hall 100
    A raw, brutal, hypnotic journey into the world of seven heroin addicts who barely survive on the streets of New York City. It is a film of great sadness and pain.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Phil Hall 100
    The results are either darkly comic and tragic, depending on the viewer's mindframe. But McElhinney's route to these results, as with the Bertolucci, is nothing short of stunning.
    • Metascore: tbd
    • Phil Hall 100
    If you want pure, undiluted, 100% guaranteed entertainment, Soap Girl is the film to enjoy. This film is a wonderful work of fun, with a marvelous ensemble cast who have more energy, sex-appeal and charm than any group to strut and vamp across the camera in recent memory.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Phil Hall 100
    Put simply, Mind Game is a mind-blowing experience.